Change collections url

Store Design
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Topic summary

A user wants to change their Shopify store’s collections URL from /collections to a custom path like /inventory.

Key Points:

  • Core limitation: Shopify’s predefined URL structures (/collections, /products, /pages, /search) cannot be directly modified through standard settings.

  • Proposed workarounds:

    • Set up redirects for custom content (though not for system routes)
    • Use meta refresh or JavaScript redirects
    • Create custom product templates that display collection content, leveraging the /product URL structure
    • Manual code customization to redirect or modify URLs

  • Conflicting advice: One contributor states the URL structure is “unchangeable,” while another claims custom paths like /inventory are “possible” through manual code modifications.

Status: The discussion remains unresolved regarding whether true URL restructuring is feasible. The conversation shifts to an unrelated question about contact form text color styling.

Summarized with AI on October 24. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.
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The url structure for the online sales channel is prescribed and unchangeable for routes like that /collections, /pages /products, /search etc.

The most you can do is setup redirects for your created content, but not the predefined routes like /collections or /products.

For those the most you can do is theme customizations to control what content shows, or add meta refresh or javascript redirects.

The /products url is the colllection-list page and template